Attributing negative categories such as 'weak' to pupils is a common practice in Sweden and a known phenomenon worldwide. While there has been a substantial amount of research on different expressions of 'deviance' in the educational arena, the research on how teachers communicate about pupils as 'weak' is scarce. In this study, teachers'…

In this article, Boaz Tsabar explores the fundamental significance of relations of trust between educator and child in the work of renowned Polish-Jewish pedagogue, author, children's rights advocate, and orphanage director Janusz Korczak. The first part of the article investigates the existential importance of trust in a pedagogy that is based on…

Student evaluations of teaching are widely used to assess instructors and courses. Using a model-based approach and Bayesian methods, we examine how the direction of the scale, labels on scales, and the number of options affect the ratings. We conduct a within-participants experiment in which respondents evaluate instructors and lectures using…

Despite the abundance of decades of research into teacher leadership, uncertainty remains due to confusion around the notions of teacher leadership and the unity or at least the authenticity of definitions, and there is a need for a deeper understanding of this leadership process as the teacher works with students in the classroom. The existing…

Student-teacher relationships play an important role in both teacher and student experiences in higher education and have been found to be linked to learning, classroom management, and to student absenteeism. Although historically conceptualised in terms of immediacy or distance and measured with reference to behaviours, the growing recognition of…

This study explored the content and nature of teachers' knowledge and perceptions of their students. The knowledge and perceptions of seven Dutch secondary school teachers regarding the same 33 students in one second-year school class were studied. Each teacher was invited to tell (in 60 s per student) how he/she perceived and what he/she knew…

The general discourse on education stresses either the teacher's or the student's position. This article aims to contribute to a relational theory of teaching by discussing three significant concepts of teaching from the standpoint of Martin Buber's relational philosophy. Feldman suggests that teaching implies being human in a particular way and…

Our investigation of the emerging issue of teacher entitlement is viewed from the perspective of researchers trying to make sense of the concept with the intention of exploring its links to inclusive educational practice, teacher education and research. This chapter is therefore mainly conceptual, focusing on the limits and possibilities offered…

In the second edition of this valuable resource, Allen Mendler offers specific, practical strategies on how to reignite enthusiasm in even the most unmotivated students. Learn classroom and behavior management strategies that will help support struggling students and build positive teacher-student relationships. This book helps the reader: (1)…

Sentiment analysis (SA) is the process of identifying and classifying users' opinion from a piece of text into different sentiments. Student's evaluation of teaching is one of the common and necessary measures to assess the teaching quality of course instructors in a college setting. Traditionally, student evaluations are administered towards the…

Faculty motivation and student engagement are two topics that have been extensively researched within higher education. How individual faculty motivations influence their engagement with students has been less commonly examined. Additionally, the concept described as the disengagement compact (Kuh, 1991), an implicit bargaining agreement of…

Black Virgin Island high schoolers matter but may find themselves questioning if they matter to their schools since the 2017 hurricanes. The current complementarity mixed methods study examined how Black Virgin Island high schoolers in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands perceived school mattering was associated with school practices (i.e.,…

For children facing adversity, described in this study as developmental trauma, there is evidence for an increase in high-risk behaviors, diseases, and disabilities. Positive relationships between adults and children have shown to be beneficial for children's development and can be crucial to their ability to succeed. Drawing on attachment,…

Early childhood teachers attend professional development sessions, take college-level courses, or read articles, and will, at some point, be exposed to some concepts found in Vygotsky's (1986) cultural-historical theory of cognitive development as they are deeply embedded in education standards, professional standards, texts, and journals…

This mixed methods study examined the mathematical preparation of elementary teachers in a Teach for America (TFA) program, focal participants for whom there is scant extant research. Data collection occurred before and after a university mathematics methods course, with a particular focus on the participants' (n = 22) mathematical beliefs,…